I don't think it's just who the cheaters are -- it's the relationship between them and who they're cheating.

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I am glad they bring you joy! It had been ages since I made anything.

Networking about contracting again. Much as I would prefer a permajob, contracting is more likely to happen. Hmm. Will cross the weird daycare slot bridge when I come to it, I guess.

Damn, this adulthood shit's complex.

-t, your PE classes had tests??

I got an academic exception for PE, so I guess our HS classes might have, and I just didn't know.

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I have no idea how the cheating conversation started (yes, I skip, I do), but I have caught numerous cheaters--in my case, plagiarists. I have never really had a borderline case, really. And I've seen cases where the students involved lied again and again even when the instructors involved had proof positive. Like young Karl Roves in training.

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"It's the law!" by itself isn't a good reason to do something, any more than "There's no law against it!" is a good reason to do something.

When did you become this bunch of lawless anarchists?

For me, it was when I took a criminology class. Now there was a great teacher.

But if he'd failed that class, would that have ruined his chances of ever getting his PhD or being a chemist?

Yes. The bureaucracy of it isn't that interesting, but because of the way that school worked, he would not have been able to get his bachelor's in chemistry. Until the last-minute save, he was trying to figure out what he was going to change his major to.

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Like young Karl Roves in training.

Reason enough in my book to come down hard on cheaters.

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Reason enough in my book to come down hard on cheaters.

But apparently some turn out as well respected chemists.

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-t, your PE classes had tests??

Yeah. I don't remember it too clealry, but I think every class was required to have so many written tests. Including PE. i know I was tested on the rules of basketball. To this day I have no idea what they are, other than the ball going through the hoop scores points. It would have been nice to learn something like that in PE, actually.

I know we were required to write one full page (in English) every quarter in every class. Including PE. And foreign language classes. One of those rules that sounds l ike a good idea until it's actually implemented, and then it turns out to be full of stupidity.

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Here's the wikipedia entry on Siamese cats, including a bit of info about the coloration deal [link] .

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If the dirt-bags who picked on me and cheated off me in high school are now making better money than I am, I frickin' want royalties.

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"It's the law!" by itself isn't a good reason to do something

Yeah, but if you don't buy into the other reasons (which is why, perhaps generously, I assume people don't follow that particular one), what's left other than fear of reprisal?

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